Comments on: SAS and the R Programming Language http://johnleach.co.uk/words/327/sas-and-the-r-programming-language Stuff I think, see and do Mon, 14 May 2012 20:40:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Frank Canter http://johnleach.co.uk/words/327/sas-and-the-r-programming-language/comment-page-1#comment-138381 Frank Canter Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:09:16 +0000 http://johnleach.co.uk/words/?p=327#comment-138381 I'm trying to justify continuing to use SAS in my data manipulation and statistical analysis work vs. usinging MS SQL or MYSQL etc, and R. I know SAS has a huge user base etc, but it seems like such an old and cobbled together language and is so expensive. What am I giving up if I dump it? I’m trying to justify continuing to use SAS in my data manipulation and statistical analysis work vs. usinging MS SQL or MYSQL etc, and R. I know SAS has a huge user base etc, but it seems like such an old and cobbled together language and is so expensive. What am I giving up if I dump it?

]]> By: Meeta http://johnleach.co.uk/words/327/sas-and-the-r-programming-language/comment-page-1#comment-92560 Meeta Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:34:09 +0000 http://johnleach.co.uk/words/?p=327#comment-92560 Hi John, I am a Technical Editor working with Packt. We are planning to publish a book on R. I am looking for technical reviewers to provide feedback on the content of the book. It would be of great help, if you would be willing to take it up. Please visit http://www.packtpub.com/author_reviewing_for_packt for more details regarding reviewing.We will also like you to know that you will be receiving two copies of the book once it is published and your name will be credited as well. Thanks, Meeta Hi John,

I am a Technical Editor working with Packt. We are planning to publish a book on R. I am looking for technical reviewers to provide feedback on the content of the book. It would be of great help, if you would be willing to take it up. Please visit http://www.packtpub.com/author_reviewing_for_packt for more details regarding reviewing.We will also like you to know that you will be receiving two copies of the book once it is published and your name will be credited as well.

Thanks,
Meeta

]]> By: Steve Polilli http://johnleach.co.uk/words/327/sas-and-the-r-programming-language/comment-page-1#comment-50643 Steve Polilli Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:18:46 +0000 http://johnleach.co.uk/words/?p=327#comment-50643 As a SAS marketing guy, I have my own biases, but I don't necessarily see this as a competition with R, no matter how many people use it. Both tools are applied to the same field but it's not a competition for two reasons: the analytics market is growing and there's room for several players, plus SAS and R have appeal to very different user sets. It's worth a peek at a followup post by Anne Milley who was quotes in the Times. See http://blogs.sas.com/sascom/ As a SAS marketing guy, I have my own biases, but I don’t necessarily see this as a competition with R, no matter how many people use it. Both tools are applied to the same field but it’s not a competition for two reasons: the analytics market is growing and there’s room for several players, plus SAS and R have appeal to very different user sets. It’s worth a peek at a followup post by Anne Milley who was quotes in the Times. See http://blogs.sas.com/sascom/

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